Bristol City 1-1 Ipswich Town: Gerhard Struber's verdict

The Robins took the lead through Rob Atkinson's towering header at a corner (18), but Jack Clarke's penalty (51) levelled things up in a game of few clear cut chances.

“Of course, we would be more happy in the end when we have three points, but at the same time we should not forget which opponent was today in our house,” said Austrian boss Struber.

“How we deal with an opponent with such a massive quality today, this was great to see again.

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“The boys work and executed the match plan in an outstanding, good direction. How we deal in the right areas, how we stepped out with our centre-backs or with the wing-backs, this was always not so easy to deal with, especially with the different moves that they have in the wide areas with the switch balls.

“I would say Georgey (Tanner), Ross (McCrorie), Neto (Borges), Rob Atkinson, they deal on the right areas so well and make the world for them not easy. Then, we come in our world of transitions and, of course, we should score a little bit more, but the transition moments were from them, very difficult to handle.

"I would say the boys were so close in moments. This was exactly the match plan today, so they interpreted this really well and executed it really, really good.

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“I am very, very happy. We can see outstanding togetherness from the boys, how they left everything on the field.

“We play against an opponent with £200million of transfer value, of course this looks a little bit different when we look on our transfer value, but we have also a really good group of players with really good quality.”

Chuba Akpom won Ipswich's penalty after having his heels clipped in the box by McCrorie. Struber had no complaints.

He said: “No, I think it was a penalty, it was a touch. It’s hard, but it’s a penalty. It’s cheap, but that’s sometimes the world of football.

"It’s so cheap that we slide a little bit on him and, of course, he takes it, he’s flying, but I think this was not wrong. You can give a penalty like this, but it’s hard.”

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